The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-12-08

that fine Virginia Tobaccos that are
advertised in Northern markets were
grown in the neglected State of North
Carolina. Shall this system continued
Shall the facts in the case be longer
suppressed !?
THE OBJECT OF THE CONVENTION IS TO
SECURE JUSTICE.
"The object Of the Convention in
appointing the committee is to devise
plans by which North Carolina may
obtain her deserts. Only that and
nothing more. In no paper, in no
published document of any kind, let
ter, circular or advertisement will you
ever find quotations of North Carolina
Tobaccos. You will look in vain to
all circulars issued from Richmond, =,
Lynchburg, Petersburg, New York,
Boston, Cincinnati, Louisville, and
Liverpool. or from any other European
market, for information concerning
North Carolina fine Tobaccos. 1t is
notorious fact that quite two-thirds
of the Bright Grades are grown in
North Carolina, while nearly all Of the
richest and finest is grown within our
favored State. You will find the beau
tiful, fragrant, silken, golden Leaf To-
bacco of North Carolina classed in the
! circulars as "Virginia's.'
WHAT THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS
| A STATE TOBACCO EXCHANGE OR
| EACH MARKET AN INSPECTION OF ITS
OWN.
"To submit to this injustice any
longer would be shameful, almost
criminal, on our part. What then
shall be done? Your committee re-
spectfully submits that one of two
courses should be pursued that either
State Tobacco Exchange should be
formed, or that each Tobacco market
within the State should establish an
active inspection market Of Its own.
1t is of the highest necessity that North
Carolina Tobacco should be sent out
into other markets as North Carolina
Tobacco, and not as the product of
another State. North Carolina Brights
should be sold and quoted as such in
all of the markets of Europe and
America, and it is the expressed wish
of this Association that in the future
this be done. If other States can get
credit for Tobacco grown in North
Carolina, why can not North Carolina
obtain due credit for what she grows
within her own borders? All grades
of Tobaccos are quoted as coming
from many States, but You never find
North Carolina Brights.' North Car
olina must remedy this in some way
The most efficient may be by State
Tobacco Exchange. But there are
those who prefer each market in North
Carolina an active inspection of its
own.
The last plan would work the most
satisfactory probably. There are eight,
ten or more important Tobacco centers
or marts now in North Carolina.
THE RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED BY AN
EFFICIENT TOBACCO BOARD IN THE
DIFFERENT MARKETS.
" If each of these markets had their
own efficient Board with a properly
organized home inspection, and all
the markets in the State would work
in harmony and aim at the same re-
suits in SO far as securing credit abroad
for the unequaled production of our
rich Tobacco belt, then North Caro-
lima would receive her own, and the
measure adopted for this consumma-
ton would be amply vindicated in the
character of the State abroad in the
influx of buyers from other States, and
even from European countries, and in
the impulse given to trade generally.
"What other States have done can
be done by North Carolina. The
growth of Durham, Winston, Reds
vile, Henderson, Asheville, Green's
boro, Raleigh, Oxford and other To-
baCco towns as Tobacco markets has
been remarkable and in the cases of
some Ole or two, almost phenomenal.
What has been done is an index of
wha, shall be in the future. A people
who have accomplished in recent years
SO much in the Tobacco business oc-
cupy vantage ground for still higher
achievement. With a united front
and hearty pulling together the name
and fame of our State as the greatest
of all Tobacco States in the South for
the finest weed will be fully asserted
and vindicated.
ALL NORTH CAROLINA TOBACCO SHOULD
BE BRANDED AS SUCH.
"If possible, it ought to be brought
about that all Tobaccos grown in the
State, when shipped abroad, should he
properly stamped as North Carolinian.
The old way of shipping tobacco valued
at from $40. 90 to sI2s 90 per hundred
to other States, to be sent into remote
markets, branded as the production OF
said States, worked gross injustice and
robbed our growers of ine Tobaccos
Of their well earned regulations.
THE MARKETS TO BE PUT ON A HIGH
PLANE OF COMMERCIAL INTEGRITY.
whether a Tobacco Exchanges
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